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T1 A Grammatical Study of the Acquisition of Verbal Inflection in Monolingual English and Spanish
A1 Fonseca Navarro, Lucía
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Verbal inflection
K1 Root infinitives
K1 RI stage
K1 Developmental stages
K1 Monolingual children
K1 English and Spanish
K1 Flexión verbal
K1 Infinitivo raíz
K1 Etapa de infinitivos raíz
K1 Etapa de desarrollo
K1 Niños monolingües
K1 Inglés y español
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB This undergraduate dissertation presents a grammatical study on the acquisition of verbal inflection by comparing the spontaneous production of a monolingual English child (Benjamin) and a monolingual Spanish child (Emilio). The analysis deals with the production of verbal inflection in relation to their presence or absence, as well as the duration of the RI (root infinitive) stage, the different verb types (transitive, intransitive, copulative or semi copulative), with verbal forms (inflected, non-inflected, or RIs), and subject type (null or overt determiner phrases). The results of the study show that regarding the use of RIs and the duration of the RI stage, the monolingual English child lags behind his Spanish counterpart who shows acceleration in the acquisition of adult verbal inflection. This supports results obtained in previous works. However, the correlations between verb type and inflection, and subject type and inflection did not align with previous findings, with copulative verbs being scarcely used and with both children mainly using null subjects with RIs.
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79907
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79907
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 26-ene-2026